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New variant for Mac Malware XCSSET compiled for M1 Chips

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MARCH 13, 2021

For example, a sample with the MD5 hash sum 914e49921c19fffd7443deee6ee161a4 contains two architectures: x86_64 and ARM64.” “The first one corresponds to previous-generation, Intel-based Mac computers, but the second one is compiled for ARM64 architecture, which means that it can run on computers with the new Apple M1 chip.”

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Silver Sparrow, a new malware infects Mac systems using Apple M1 chip

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FEBRUARY 20, 2021

“However, our investigation almost immediately revealed that this malware, whatever it was, did not exhibit the behaviors that we’ve come to expect from the usual adware that so often targets macOS systems.” The adware writes each of its components out line by line with JavaScript commands.

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New variant for Mac Malware XCSSET compiled for M1 Chips

Silver Sparrow, a new malware infects Mac systems using Apple M1 chip

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